ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING
or
ASUS PRIME Z390-A
What to chose
Landon Fisher
Kevin White
I'll flip a coin for you. Heads or tails?
Alexander Green
>Z390
pick whichever board comes with a house fire assurance, faggot
Nolan Morgan
oh rly? just wanted a nice reply. since they are cheap with black friday deal.
Alexander Brooks
Neither. Asus is shit in that department. Go with Gigabyte. They don't have the best bios, but they make way better boards than Asus.
Jack Scott
Go strix, not for the RGB but for the better VRMs and components.
Ethan Ramirez
If someone cares about VRM, they shouldn't be anywhere near Asus.
Michael Hernandez
That might be true pre 2005 era, nowadays even ASSrock makes good boards all around.
Gabriel Reyes
Gigabyte literally makes the best z390 boards. There's no ifs ands or butts about it.
Michael Baker
The low end stuff sure, anything strix and above like the hero series are good.
Dominic Brown
That's your opinion, in the end its all OP's choice.
Parker Sullivan
Do more research. The Hero literally has only 4 phases, and you're paying a premium for it.
Luis Campbell
Why bother buying any other board when this exists with PLX and 10Gb?
Nathan Ross
from eu, never seen that board.
Matthew Reed
no one has seen that board
It's kinda of a shame too as it's one of the only Z390 boards that can honestly justify its price
Jaxon Rodriguez
ASUS a shit outside ROG (non strix) products.
Lincoln Carter
Jacob Campbell
It only has two m2 slots though from what I can see. The average is 3.
David Turner
On most motherboards with a 3rd M.2 slot means you lose a 4x pcie slot if you use it
With the added 16x slots on the Supermico motherboard you can use those to add much more NVME m.2 than most if not all motherboards
Christopher Johnson
there are 2 threads on this blue board to ask such thing, no need to open a new thread. try
/sat/ and /pcbg/ for that kind of shit.
Camden Rodriguez
>/sqt/
Joseph Collins
the one with type- c
Ryan Martin
>That's your opinion, in the end its all OP's choice.
* That's a demonstrable fact, in the end its all OP's choice
FTFY
Luis Watson
>strix and above like the hero series are good.
>ASUS a shit outside ROG (non strix) products.
Overgeneralization. Lets do a quick breakdown:
Maximus 10 Series, Z370 Strix series:
Maximus 10 series generally are good. The Z370 Strix series are utter shit with improperly doubled 4 phase design, and also a terrible low side MOSFET (Vishay SiRA12) with exceptionally HIGH Rds(on). Buildzoid considers the series 'too watered down'.
Crosshair 6 Series, X370 Strix series:
Crosshair 6 Series are great, and the X370 Strix is decent, however it's single 6 phase. Nevertheless, IR Powerstages. Not a bad mid range board.
Crosshair 7 Hero, X470 Strix series:
Crosshair 7 Hero is just insane in VRM build quality. The X470 Strix actually surpasses theoretical current carrying abilities of the Crosshair 6 Hero.
Maximus 11 Series, Z390 Strix series:
All of them have almost identical VRM design, which is a improper doubled 4 phase(5 for Apex and Gene). The Maximus uses 50A Vishay SiC639 powerstages(which are great), and the Z390 Strix uses 45A On(Semi) powestages. The Strix also have less/worse filtering capacitors. However, if my guess is right where the lowest end strix Z390-H also have the 45A powerstages, then it may not be a bad buy. However, there is still Aorus Elite which blows everything out of the water.
All non Z/X series Strix boards, such as the B450-F, H370-F:
Trash, 'nuff said.